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clydefrand

(4,325 posts)
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 07:10 PM Oct 2012

Electronic voting machines are just

not much different than a laptop computer. Having been in programming from Jan. 1961 until July 1999 (when I retired), it is so incredibly easy to program those machines to do anything you want. Most (if not all) companies DO NOT ALLOW auditing of their programs. The only valid reason is they don't want their 'fix the election' programming to be found. They say the software is 'proprietary', with is just a bunch of crap. Auditors would not report anything useful about their programs UNLESS they found the 'fix the votes' coding). When a presidential candidate's SON owns some of these 'computer/voting machines', do you really think (esp. in Romney's family case) that they would NOT put the fix in? Although that is a possibility, would you believe he didn't put the fix in?)
Just saying.
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Electronic voting machines are just (Original Post) clydefrand Oct 2012 OP
just an addendum clydefrand Oct 2012 #1
I've been singing your song for ten years and have been unable to gain any traction. Good ladjf Oct 2012 #2
Oh, and hey... TDale313 Oct 2012 #3
Agreed, but now with early voting in so many places, Qutzupalotl Oct 2012 #4

clydefrand

(4,325 posts)
1. just an addendum
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 07:12 PM
Oct 2012

the 'NSA' expert says any changing of the votes could be determined statistically.
WRONG. NOT if you are a really good programmer.

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
2. I've been singing your song for ten years and have been unable to gain any traction. Good
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 07:34 PM
Oct 2012

luck to you and the rest of us. Too late for this year.

TDale313

(7,820 posts)
3. Oh, and hey...
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 07:57 PM
Oct 2012

When the "results" the machines give us are wildly different from the exit polls, exit polls must be wrong and should be discontinued. When it happens in other countries, why, major variation from exit polls is the surest sign of election fraud.

Qutzupalotl

(14,312 posts)
4. Agreed, but now with early voting in so many places,
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 08:19 PM
Oct 2012

exit polling becomes much more difficult.

I don't have an answer.

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